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Michigan Department of Community Health created and copyrighted a risk assessment tool called the Cancer Family History Pocket Guide, a hand held tool for providers that assists with risk assessment and referral guidelines for patients with a family history of breast, ovarian, colorectal or endometrial cancer. The process used to develop the pocket guide is described in a poster [PDF147.49 KB]. They have to date distributed more than 15,000 of these tools [PDF 56.41 KB] to assist providers in identifying high risk patients for referral to a genetics specialist.

Kin Talk a social networking site, developed by genetic counselors at the University of California – San Francisco for individuals and families with LS, to help families deal with the difficult questions that arise when cascade screening for LS is initiated.